The history of the future : American essays, Edward McPherson

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"What does it mean to think about Dallas in relationship to [the TV show] Dallas? In The History of the Future, McPherson reexamines American places and the space between history, experience, and myth. Private streets, racism, and the St. Louis World's Fair; fracking for oil and digging for dinosaurs in North Dakota boomtowns--Americana slides into apocalypse in these essays, revealing us to ourselves."--Back cover

"What does it mean to think about Dallas in relationship to [the TV show] Dallas? In The History of the Future, McPherson reexamines American places and the space between history, experience, and myth. Private streets, racism, and the St. Louis World's Fair; fracking for oil and digging for dinosaurs in North Dakota boomtowns--Americana slides into apocalypse in these essays, revealing us to ourselves."--Back cover

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A collection of long essays centered on American places where the past is erupting into the present in unexpected ways. McPherson reexamines American places and the space between history, experience, and myth. Private streets, racism, and the St. Louis World’s Fair; fracking for oil and digging for dinosaurs in North Dakota boomtowns -- Americana slides into apocalypse in these essays, revealing us to ourselves